This Niskanen Center annual report card examines the cumulative impact of six major family benefit programs — TANF, SNAP, federal and state EITCs, and federal and state CTCs — across all 50 states for families with young children. Rather than analyzing programs in isolation, it models how benefits interact as parents move from unemployment to minimum wage work and then to median wage work, revealing the implicit marginal tax rates and benefits cliffs families face at each step. For NC funders and advocates, it offers a rigorous, state-by-state framework for understanding how the benefits system either supports or undermines economic mobility for working families.
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Categories: Affordability & Economic Security, Benefits Access
